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The road to closing down the PSN
In September 2019, Government Digital Service (GDS) published an update about the Future Networks for Government (FN4G) Programme (PSN Closedown), which is supporting the public sector to migrate away...
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Wheel of Misfortune: Incident rehearsal for GOV.UK PaaS
The GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS) team recently held our first light-touch incident response and recovery workshop. We wanted to find a way to practice tackling different sorts of platform...
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How we fixed a strange ‘week year’ bug
Last year, the first working day after Christmas was 29 December 2020. I began the day by merging a pull request. Automated tests checked the code change did not break anything, but to my surprise one...
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Simple things are complicated: making a show password option
After we launched the first GOV.UK Account trial on the Brexit Checker, we started receiving feedback from users, who requested an option to show their password when registering for and signing into...
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Automatically creating and rotating GOV.UK application secrets
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution "Secure password of the week" by Simon Lieschke is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 The GOV.UK Replatforming team are working on rehosting GOV.UK. We’re moving from AWS...
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Introducing the government’s Chief Technology Officer Council
The Technology in Government blog platform often highlights how government is working towards making better use of technology. We’re now adding to that aim by introducing the work of the newly formed...
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Service Manual testing requirement changes for Internet Explorer 11
We constantly monitor the GOV.UK analytics browser stats and every 6 months we update the ‘Designing for different browsers and devices’ page in the Service Manual. This page gives service teams an...
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Solving an interesting problem with Sender Policy Framework records
The Securing Government Services team at the Central Digital and Data Office recently encountered, and fixed, a small bug with the way some government domains handle their Sender Policy Framework...
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Advocating security.txt across UK government
Technology has revolutionised every aspect of our society and our economy, including the way that we deliver our public services, helping to make people’s lives easier and safer. Security...
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